The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-31

F. Fernley was arrested at Gainesville
| Sa urd ny at the instance of S. t. Dunn, OF
Ocala, on a charge Of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses. He was taken to Ocala
for examination. The supposed crime was
! committed last spring. Fernley was alb
sent till last week. His wife and daughter
are very i'll.
Crops of all kinds throughout the Boni-
| fay section look well, notwithstanding the
unfavorable weather in the early part of
the season. The plantations on the river,
however, have all suffered more or less from
| high floods The Bombay district, standing
! high, has suffered comparatively little
corn and rice especially look we'll
Recently j. O. Fries, of Orlando, while
| out surveying, became overheated and for u
time was out of his head. During his deli
rum he imagined that there was great
| railroad accident, in which 5000 RepubH-
cans and 800 Democrats were killed. He
expressed himself as being perfectly recon-
! ciled to a loss of 500 Democrats where the
| Republicans lost 5000
A severe thunderstorm passed over
| Gainesville Sunday night. Lightning
struck the residence Of J. Perdue, North
Gainesville, demolishing the chimney, and
smashing things generally. Two children
were knocked down, and the rest of the
| family was stunned. A shock also entered
a stable and stunned a horse. A small house
in the city, occupied by colored carter,
was struck. He was paralyzed and his chill
dren were shocked
Mr.. Emmerson returned to Arcadia Thurs
day after an unsuccessful search for his lost
| brother. He received information a few
days ago that a party answering to the de-
scription of Alonzo had been seen near Bar
tow. Mr.. EmmerSOn went to Barlow,
where he secured team and took the route
supposed to have been taken by the lost
man. He interviewed several people with
whom this man had stopped, and felt salts
fed that he was on the wrong trail.
Mrs. Fearand, who is visiting her father,
Capt. Cordero, at Ocala, had an experience
with a negro burglar. Early Sunday morn
ing she awoke to find him bending over her
form, when she made a clutch for his
| throat, caught the band of his shirt collar
and held on with such tenacity that in the
burglars attempts to release himself from
his captress he severely sprained her fingers.
Her calls brought Capt COrdero on the
scene, but the would-be robber had made
good his escape.
T. T. Eyre, of Fort Myers, is marketing
his guava crop at 81 per bushel, and re-
grets that he did not set out last year 5000
trees instead of 500, as he is confident he
could find buyers for any quantity of fruit.
He has one tree of sour guavas that takes
pIbC6'bllCb IOl ,jtlly, anu ITO Is UHhluS DulIlS
to reproduce it from the seed, having
planted several thousand The only ex-
pense he incurred was to go around and dig
up the young guavas wherever he could
find them and set them out. They grow
everywhere down therein the fence cor
ners, on the streetside, in the woods, alleys
and byways
The mysterious disappearance of William
H. Hunter, of Arcadia, is causing his rela-
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| left Arcadia on Aug. with the intention of
going to Liverpool Manatee county, where
he had an engagement with James Walker,
| his brother-in-law, on the following Satur-
day. Mr.. Walker was at Liverpool at the
appointed time, but failed either to meet or
| learn anything as to Hunters whereabouts.
He made many inquiries concerning Hunter,
who is well known in that part of the coun-
| try, but received the same answer-he had
not been in that locality Hunter is an old
sailor, and at one time run a boat on Char
| lotte Harbor. He may either be on the bay
or else victim of foul play.
! A meeting of citizens, presided over by
| Mr.. Holmes, was held in the store Of the
Bonifay Manufacturing Company last
Wednesday evening. The object Of the
meeting was to take concerted action in con
naction with the proposed change in the 10
cation of the county seat. The unanimous
opinion was that Bombay, in view of its pro
gressive growth and situation, has advan
tages specially commencing itself to all
over any of the other towns of Holmes
county. The County Commissioners have
called an election in accordance with tn
prayer of petition that was presented fol
that purpoce. The Bombay Land Company
in the event of the county seat being located
at Bombay has agreed to build suitabl,
court house and to furnish fire-proof SAT-
all free of cost.
The Crescent City (Fla.) correspondent o.
the NEWS, under date of Aug. 81 writes a
follows Our citizens held another rail
road meeting to-day. The committee APP
pointed to confer with the officials of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail
road made a report that the manager, Gen
Bentley, had been approached on the subjec
and had promised to have the proposes
route surveyed, provided the people of Ores
cent City would agree to pay half the ex
pense The meeting voted to have the sur
vey made in order to ascertain the cost o
constructing the road. Hon. L. L. New
some, Henry Hutchinson and ex-Mayor G
I. Sprague were elected to make an exam
nation and determine where to locate tn
route 1t is quite evident that the peop
here are determined to have a railroad pro
vided the expense is not too heavy 1t i
thought that $4,000 will grade and tie tn
road. OF this amount probably $4,000 o
$1,000 can be raised by private donations